Rikard is Scholar Athlete of Month

Wilson Rikard, a senior at Kings Mountain High, is the McDonald’s/WOHS/What’s Up Shopper Scholar Athlete of the Month. He is a member of the Mountaineer football team.

Special to The Star

Wilson Rikard, a senior at Kings Mountain High, is the McDonald’s/WOHS/What’s Up Shopper Scholar Athlete of the Month. He is a member of the Mountaineer football team.

Rikard has earned a 4.518 grade-point average while taking numerous advanced placement classes, including calculus, biology and English IV, and is ranked fourth in a class of 260.

He is a member of the Beta Club and the National Vocational Technical Society and chairperson of the Ambassador Club and served as a junior marshal. Rikard was an NCHSAA scholar-athlete and his class treasurer as a junior.

He plans to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or Gardner-Webb and become a physician assistant.

The son of Quinton and Julie Rikard, Wilson Rikard is an active member of First Baptist Church in Kings Mountain, where he has served as a vacation Bible school helper and aided in raising funds for missions.

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